Information Retrieval
Search engine Bing is showing child PORNOGRAPHY
Microsoft's Bing search engine shows results for sickening child pornography images, research has found. The disturbing revelation discovered that it was easy to find illegal photos of under-age boys and girls on the site. Image searches for'porn kids,' 'porn CP' (a known abbreviation for'child pornography') and'nude family kids' all produced the exploitative content. People looking for the horrific content only needed to turn off SafeSearch filter to find the imagery. An investigation commissioned by TechCrunch found that Bing also suggested other disturbing phrases to help paedophiles target children.
Doodle 4 Google: Search engine offers children chance to design their own inspirational logo
Google is offering US schoolchildren the chance to design their own Doodle to appear on its homepage. The Google Doodle sees the Silicon Valley search giant periodically replace its familiar logo with a sketch, often animated, to celebrate a public figure on an anniversary associated with them or their achievements. Doing so offers an opportunity to champion figures from the arts and sciences who have distinguished themselves through innovation or by blazing a trail for others and deserve to be better known. This year's theme is "hope", with entrants asked to submit a design based on their personal wishes for the future. Kids who would like to get involved have until 8pm Pacific Time on 19 March 2019 to upload a .jpg
Dynamic Online Gradient Descent with Improved Query Complexity: A Theoretical Revisit
Zhao, Yawei, Zhu, En, Liu, Xinwang, Yin, Jianping
We provide a new theoretical analysis framework to investigate online gradient descent in the dynamic environment. Comparing with the previous work, the new framework recovers the state-of-the-art dynamic regret, but does not require extra gradient queries for every iteration. Specifically, when functions are $\alpha$ strongly convex and $\beta$ smooth, to achieve the state-of-the-art dynamic regret, the previous work requires $O(\kappa)$ with $\kappa = \frac{\beta}{\alpha}$ queries of gradients at every iteration. But, our framework shows that the query complexity can be improved to be $O(1)$, which does not depend on $\kappa$. The improvement is significant for ill-conditioned problems because that their objective function usually has a large $\kappa$.
Beyond Google Analytics: 10 SEO analytics and reporting tools - Search Engine Watch
Analytics and reporting are a critical part of any SEO campaign. As well as ensuring that you prove your worth to your clients, analytics are also essential in helping you make iterative improvements to the campaign as you go along. Yet SEO reporting can be a bit of a minefield. With a myriad of available data, countless online tracking tools and making sure that the client actually understands what on earth you are talking about, it's difficult to know where to turn. Naturally, Google Analytics is a great place to start, especially for traffic overviews and conversion tracking, but it most certainly shouldn't be where you stop.
Principal Data Scientist at Code North America
We are looking for a Principal Data Scientist who can turn a marketing client's ideas into reality through functional analytical prototypes. This position works closely with our clients and agency teams to understand needs and to respond with working examples of possible solutions. The Innovation Team is not responsible for shipping products and as such is always available to work on new ideas that show clients the art of the possible. Digital marketing is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet today, with about $70 billion of a $600 billion market already online. Search engines, Web publishers, major ad networks and ad exchanges are now serving billions of ad impressions per day and generating terabytes of user events data every day.
The Disappearance of AI
Navigating data increasingly requires artificial intelligence just to be able to organize that data.Kurt Cagle 2019 All things come to an end, especially economic cycles. People who have logged more than a couple of decades in information technology especially are attuned to it, because their jobs and interests both tend to be very forward facing - the inability of a software developer or information manager to read the future, at least in a general sense, usually means that they won't last long in the field. As the markets enter into the gyrations of this last December, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average now down 16% from the year's highs, the thought that the party would never end is now giving way to the notion that maybe it's time to grab the car keys and bid the hosts adieu, and those of us in IT are battening down the hatches in a serious way. I started writing these year end predictions way back in 2003, at a time when "blogging" was still considered a novel thing, and Google had just wrested the mantle of king of the search engines away from Alta Vista. Fifteen years later, with my then three year old baby girl now heading to college and my red hair and beard now gone mostly white, the landscape has changed, most of the big players have changed (who knew Microsoft would eventually end up migrating to Linux), and the buzzwords are now almost a different language, yet at the same time, the patterns that underlie tech remain very predictable. Business cycles, most economists have noticed, follow an eight to ten year pattern, usually with a bit of a wobble at the halfway point, and you can make a pretty compelling argument that there's a broader cycle that's double that, between eighteen and twenty years, where the economic crises oscillate between equity crashes (typically accompanied by commercial real estate disintegration) and mortgage (or residential real estate) collapses.
Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines
"All words in a natural language are ambiguous; they have multiple senses," she said in an oral history interview for the History Center of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. "How do you find out which sense they've got in any particular use?" In 1964, Sparck Jones published "Synonymy and Semantic Classification," which is now seen as a foundational paper in the field of natural language processing. In 1972, she introduced the concept of inverse document frequency, which counts the number of times a term is used in a document in order to determine the term's importance; it, too, is a foundation of modern search engines. Sparck Jones began working on early speech recognition systems in the 1980s.
20 SEO Experts Share Advice on Career, Skills and Education in 2018
Nowadays, there is an endless amount of information on starting and enhancing a career in online marketing and one may find it challenging to filter out what is worth reading and what is not. To save us time and make us the job easier, some of the world's leading SEO experts shared their personal opinion on must-have skills for 2018 and gave unique advice on how they would start their SEO careers today where they would develop SEO skills. They also revealed how they educate themselves and how they keep up with the ever-changing industry of search engine optimization. I would like to express massive thanks to all the contributors and, with that being said, make sure to check their social media profiles, since those are important sources of SEO hacks, tricks, and the latest news as well. Note: The list is not based on any particular order, and if I could, I would love to put everyone in the first position. Therefore, even that the list is quite long, it is definitely worth reading all of the amazing answers. What is the most important skill in 2018? If I were beginning my marketing career this year, I would be overwhelmed by the many options and channels to invest in, people to follow, content to read, and more. I have always believed that the most important skills in any career are meeting people, being curious, and being committed. If I were beginning my career just now, I would seek to connect with as many smart people as possible in places where I could learn. This is still very possible to do on Twitter, but there are also many great Slack groups for marketers where you can learn from others. The access to super smart and successful people through these channels is amazing, and I would take full advantage of it. I say curiosity because the marketing world is always changing and with that, your skillset needs to be evolving.
A Survey on Multi-output Learning
Xu, Donna, Shi, Yaxin, Tsang, Ivor W., Ong, Yew-Soon, Gong, Chen, Shen, Xiaobo
Multi-output learning aims to simultaneously predict multiple outputs given an input. It is an important learning problem due to the pressing need for sophisticated decision making in real-world applications. Inspired by big data, the 4Vs characteristics of multi-output imposes a set of challenges to multi-output learning, in terms of the volume, velocity, variety and veracity of the outputs. Increasing number of works in the literature have been devoted to the study of multi-output learning and the development of novel approaches for addressing the challenges encountered. However, it lacks a comprehensive overview on different types of challenges of multi-output learning brought by the characteristics of the multiple outputs and the techniques proposed to overcome the challenges. This paper thus attempts to fill in this gap to provide a comprehensive review on this area. We first introduce different stages of the life cycle of the output labels. Then we present the paradigm on multi-output learning, including its myriads of output structures, definitions of its different sub-problems, model evaluation metrics and popular data repositories used in the study. Subsequently, we review a number of state-of-the-art multi-output learning methods, which are categorized based on the challenges.
Unary and Binary Classification Approaches and their Implications for Authorship Verification
Halvani, Oren, Winter, Christian, Graner, Lukas
Retrieving indexed documents, not by their topical content but their writing style opens the door for a number of applications in information retrieval (IR). One application is to retrieve textual content of a certain author X, where the queried IR system is provided beforehand with a set of reference texts of X. Authorship verification (AV), which is a research subject in the field of digital text forensics, is suitable for this purpose. The task of AV is to determine if two documents (i.e. an indexed and a reference document) have been written by the same author X. Even though AV represents a unary classification problem, a number of existing approaches consider it as a binary classification task. However, the underlying classification model of an AV method has a number of serious implications regarding its prerequisites, evaluability, and applicability. In our comprehensive literature review, we observed several misunderstandings regarding the differentiation of unary and binary AV approaches that require consideration. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to clarify these by proposing clear criteria and new properties that aim to improve the characterization of existing and future AV approaches. Given both, we investigate the applicability of eleven existing unary and binary AV methods as well as four generic unary classification algorithms on two self-compiled corpora. Furthermore, we highlight an important issue concerning the evaluation of AV methods based on fixed decision criterions, which has not been paid attention in previous AV studies.